This landscape may look like it’s steaming or on fire, but it’s just bright, rich colors of the time of day the photo was shot—and it makes for a beautiful wallpaper. Add a little customization, and Nicolas has a great desktop worth sitting down at every day. Here’s how it’s all set up.

We’ve been seeing a lot of water-based, beach-y, ocean-y wallpapers lately, and that makes us think you guys must be yearning for warmer weather. This one, from Sebastian, is a gorgeous, stark, black and white desktop with just a little customization. Here’s how it’s all set up.

Dobbie03 decided to give sidboX a try after using Gnome-Shell for ages, and it inspired him to customize his Arch box, which you can see above. If you have no idea what that’s all about, it’s okay—the end result is a gorgeous, custom Linux desktop that we can all admire.

Frequent desktop contributor JonRedcorn2 usually uses Windows, but this time he has a Mac—and that isn’t stopping him from customizing it the way he likes. Here’s how he set up this beautifully clean desktop.

Reader Spencer put together this custom desktop on his Mac with just the widgets and tools he wanted visible. The wallpaper is one of his own photos, but the rest is easy to get on your own if you want a similar look.

Frequent contributor JonRedcorn2 switches up his desktops on the reg, and this recent one caught our eye. It’s symmetrical and interesting, and isn’t too busy with widgets and tools. Here’s how you can get the same look.

This desktop is actually a second screen, ever so customized with a couple of elements that really fit the theme and give us a dose of that 80s nostalgia. The primary display uses the same desktop, but this one’s the one worth talking about. Here’s what you’ll need to get the same look.

Reader thdoan submitted this highly customized second screen using Rainmeter to our Flickr desktop show and tell pool. Best of all there’s even a video showing you how it all works. If you like the look, here’s what you’ll need to make your own.

I have a bit of a soft spot for desktops that actually look like desktops. Alec’s desktop fits the bill nicely, and actually looks like a desk surface, with items in the corners, while there’s still plenty of room to actually work, and a little customization to make it personal.

katil10's desktop is well-customized, pretty minimal, but also just energetic enough to make us want to sit down and get stuff done. Here’s how it’s all set up, and what you’ll need to get the same beautiful, personalized look.

This desktop comes to us from our Flickr desktop show and tell photo pool, and is a great example of how sometimes busy and dyamic desktops are great, and other times simple and iconographic are great as well. If you like the look, here’s what you’ll need to set it up.

Our friend joergermeister is running Windows 10 in this desktop, but as always, has it customized to look and work the way he wants it, and the end result looks great. If you like the look—or even just some of the look—here’s how to get it for yourself.

It’s been a little while since we’ve seen JonRedcorn2's customized desktops, but this one was so striking we couldn’t look away—and we had to feature it. Here’s how to get the same look for your computer.

Windows: Built-in desktop widgets left Windows with the end of the sidebar, but they’ve always been available with third party apps like the always-incredible Rainmeter. Win10 Widgets is a Rainmeter package that brings a lot of those informative widgets back to Windows in a way that looks natural in Windows 10.